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Digital Business Automation Ideas


This is an IBM Automation portal for Digital Business Automation products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Please use the following category to raise ideas for these offerings for all environments (traditional on premises, containers, on cloud):
  • Cloud Pak for Business Automation - including Business Automation Studio and App Designer, Business Automation Insights

  • Business Automation Workflow (BAW) - including BAW, Business Process Manager, Workstream Services, Business Performance Center, Advanced Case Management

  • Content Services - FileNet Content Manager

  • Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand

  • Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer

  • Content Services - Navigator

  • Content Services - Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files

  • Content Services - Content Collector for SAP

  • Content Services - Enterprise Records

  • Content Services - Content Manager (CM8)

  • Datacap

  • Automation Document Processing

  • Automation Decision Services (ADS)

  • Operational Decision Manager

  • Robotic Process Automation

  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.


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Content Navigator

IBM Content Navigator and Change Class with Entrytmplates: original entry template should be set as default selection

When checking in a document with an entry template in the ICN, the original entry template is not automatically set as the default. Users are forced to manually select an entry template even when they have no intention of changing it. ### Current ...
about 1 month ago in Content Navigator Submitted

DocuSign/IBM Integration: Use document name as subject line

When sending a document from the DMS via DocuSign, the predefined text "Complete with docusing:" appears in the subject line, but the document name is not filled in (see png-file #2). In our opinion, this is an error, as we have observed that when...
about 1 month ago in Content Navigator Needs more information

Add a Content Navigator custom URL to edit ands co-edit documents with Office Online Server (and Office365 SaaS in the future)

IBM Content Navigator allows users to edit Office documents with Office Online Server from the web interface; however, this functionality is not exposed through a supported custom URL.It would be very useful for customers to have a custom URL - si...
about 2 months ago in Content Navigator Submitted

Multiple documents via Docusign in Content Navigator

Select multiple documents to send via Docusign for signature in Content Navigator - Extension product: Docusign Plugin Users would find it helpful, to combine multiple documents (regarding one matter i. e. annual report or contract negotiations) i...
2 months ago in Content Navigator Needs more information

The DocuSign signature status should not always be visible in the magazine view of search results

When viewing a search result in the magazine view, the value of the Signature Status property is shown as text and always visible. There is no option to hide this property from being displayed there. This can be confusing for users because the val...
2 months ago in Content Navigator Needs more information

Keyboard accessibility issue: Tooltip not displayed for year values in Date field on Add Document page

Tooltip information associated with year values should be displayed and accessible during keyboard navigation.
16 days ago in Content Navigator Submitted

Tooltip not displayed for year values in Date field on Add Document page

On the Add Document page, when navigating the date field using keyboard only, the year values do not display the additional tooltip information that is otherwise available through mouse interaction. As a result, keyboard users do not have access t...
16 days ago in Content Navigator Submitted

The option "Require users to save new documents and folders in folders" -> disallow users adding folders to root for P8 ObjectStores

CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY:In the General tab of the ICN desktop configuration, there is the following option:"Require users to save new documents and folders in a folder" The tooltip for which states:"Select this option if you want to require users to...
about 2 months ago in Content Navigator Submitted

Add feature for exporting and importing favorites in ICN desktops

Often customers wants to work in several desktops where same repositories are used with the same favorites which is not possible between different desktops. So waht about an exporting and importing feature for that? This would help our customers t...
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator Future consideration

Close functions editable elements accessible via mouse are not reachable using keyboard on Search and Viewer pages

When navigating the Search or Viewer page using keyboard only, certain editable and interactive UI elements that are accessible with a mouse cannot be reached, focused, or operated using keyboard navigation (Tab, Shift + Tab, Arrow keys, Enter, Sp...
22 days ago in Content Navigator Submitted